September 9 2017

Its Election Night and it is also the aftermath of Grand Final Day and so we are here to make you a list of songs with the word Saturday in it to hopefully enjoy the night.

1. Saturday in the Park – Chicago
2. Saturday – Fall Out Boy
3. Saturday Night – Cold Chisel
4. Saturday Night Divas – Spice Girls
5. Saturday Night’s Alright (for Fighting) – Elton John
6. Saturday’s Child – The Monkees
7. Saturday (Oooh! Ooooh!) – Ludacris
8. Saturday – Carpenters
9. Another Saturday Night – Sam Cooke
10. It’s Another Saturday Night – The Cockroaches
11. Saturday Night Special – Lynyrd Skynyrd
12. Almost Saturday Night – John Fogerty
13. Dancing on a Saturday Night – Barry Blue

August 27 2017

Several Rovers sides played Finals at Memorial Park on Saturday and the Under 17’s Football side played in Tocumwal today.

Rovers Football

Reserves lost 12.8 – 80 to 5.1 – 31 (vs Picola United)
Under 17’s won 10.10 – 70 to 6.13 – 49 (vs Tocumwal)
Under 14’s lost 11.4 – 70 to 3.0 – 18  (vs Tocumwal)

Rovers Netball

A Grade lost 61 to 49 (vs Tocumwal)
B Grade lost 52 to 45 (vs Mathoura)
C Reserve lost 39 to 22 (vs Blighty)
Under 15’s lost 47 to 26 (vs Tocumwal)

Conclusion

It wasn’t the best weekend of results for the Rovers but there is still life in the 2017 season as the Preliminary Finals come calling next week.

The Football sides will be playing in Berrigan next week so if you want to give the sides a cheer make your way to Berrigan next weekend.

Ever wanted to see what sheep and cattle Elders will be offering in future sales? Now you can by visiting their YouTube channel.

Visitors will see a series of short videos of sheep and cattle of all sizes, shapes and in the cows case colours.

So far there are no subscribers to the channel but those in the business may find it handy to subscribe to it in order to keep tabs on what is being offered when a good inspection is not possible due to either distance, time or weather.

We will check in later on to see what comes up on the channel.

Listeners of 102.5 as well as visitors to their FB page are learning about  a competition that will have a winner check themselves, another adult and two children in at Big4 Deniliquin for a stay that lasts from Friday September 1 to Sunday September 3.

All that is required is going online and answering the question ‘What would your Dad love to do most?’ as well as putting in your details like name, email, postcode and phone number.

Visit the competition page here and fill it in before 5pm Thursday August 17 and the winner will be drawn the next day.

Good luck readers.

More details are coming up on the candidates for the Edward River Council election held on September 9.

As noted over the last week, many of the candidates are from Deniliquin with several having experience with the late Deniliquin Council and one at Hay Shire.

The candidates below wrote down their experience in councils;

Peter Connell – 11 years Deniliquin Council
Andrew Howley – 3 years at Deniliquin Council
Robert Sobolewski – Deniliquin Council
Airlie Circuitt – Hay Shire
Sue Taylor – Former Mayor & Deputy Mayor (Deniliquin Council)

Candidates have a range of occupations including Dentistry, Real Estate, Farming, Automotive and Irrigation which are all bonuses for the local area.

At present the political winds of our nation seem to blow in the direction of change, the established types are challenged by inexperienced but full of ideas citizens, whether this wind will blow through the ERC remains to be seen.

To find out more about the candidates, visit the candidates section of the NSWEC website and select ‘Local Government Councillor Candidates by Area’ followed by Edward River to get all the details.